University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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llllilf. IIIIIITIIIHEII illllll 0llllE YEARS There are two aspects of a university which we shall consider in this brief historical sketch of the University of Louisville. The first is a conception of the physical development of the institution. This, in our case, begins in the year 1837. At the time as we consider the physical growth we shall have in mind the conception of a university as a way of thinking, a system of beliefs and ideals which bestow upon the institution its unity and self consciousness. We wish to bring out also the fact that a municipal university is an expression of the culture of the community which sponsors it and that each part comes into being only as the community is ready for it. There are two parts into which we have chosen to divide the history of the University of Louisville. The first part treats that period from 1837 to the year 1907, when the College of Liberal Arts came into being. Until this time the University as such had to a large extent existed in name only. It had consisted of two professional schools which were united only somewhat loosely. In 1907 the College of Liberal Arts was added to round out the picture. At the same time each of the other schools underwent a period of reorganization. The result was a rejuvenated university, one which was beginning to exist in fact as well as in name. In the second part of the history we treat the University as it grew after the preliminary formative period was over. Having established a university with a certain sense of unity and selffconsciousness, we attempt to bring up to date each of the three original schools, and then proceed to give a brief historical sketch of each school and division which has been added since 1907. The University of Louisville is the oldest of municipal univerf sities. It had its beginning in two separate institutions, the Louis' ville Medical Institute and the Collegiate Institute of Louisville, both established by the City Council in 1837. The Collegiate Institute, the name of which was later changed to Louisville Col- lege, was short lived. It really passed out of existence before the University was chartered. The Louisville Medical Institute, on the other hand, presents a picture of steady growth and progress. In April, 1837, the City Council passed resolutions to establish a medical college on a site which should be a college square and which would later contain other college buildings. This square was to be bounded by Chest' nut, Magazine, and Eighth and Ninth Streets, and the college was known 'as the Medical Institute. The medical building was fin- ished in 1839, but the first session of the Medical Institute began in October, 1837 in an improvised hall in the City Workhouse. In 1846, as the result of a desire on the part of the City Counf cil to unite the two colleges under one head, the Kentucky Legisf lature granted to the Louisville College and the Louisville Medi' cal Institute a charter as one institution to be called the University of Louisville, and it provided that the Louisville College become the academic department of the University of Louisville. The academic department finally became the Louisville Male High School in 1860. It can in no sense be called a College of Liberal Arts. Under the same charter of 1846 the Law School was estabf lished, graduating its first class of twelve members in 1847. Its first quarters were on the University property referred to above as the college square. From the year 1860, when the academic department became the Louisville Male High School, until the year 1907, the Uni' versity consisted of merely the School of Law and the School of Medicine. Officially these Schools were two departments of the University, but for practical purposes they were independent. The popular conception seemed to be that they were two entirely separate schools. In 1907 the Medical Department of Kentucky University was combined with the University of Louisville's School of Medicine. In the following year the Kentucky School of Medicine, descended from the Medical Department of Transylvania University, and the Louisville Hospital College of Medicine, united with the Uni' versity of Louisville, and out of this union has grown the present University of Louisville School of Medicine. In the following year the Law School was reorganized and the faculty substantially increased. At this time the case method of teaching was introduced. In the year 1907 the community seemed at last ready to sup' port an Arts College. The College of Arts and Sciences was established in the old Silas Miller residence at 119 West Broad' way, which had been occupied by the Medical Department of Kentucky University from 1899 to 1910. Now, for the first time, was carried out the original design of the founders of setting up, in addition to the professional schools, departments for the prof motion of science, literature, and the liberal arts. Thus we see the beginning of the more adequate fulfillment of the deep purf pose of a university. The professional schools had, by their very specialized nature, tended to resist unification. But now that a common background for both schools had been provided by the establishment of a Liberal Arts College, the prospects of a unified, selffconscious university were greatly increased. . . - - . . . . H ' he skyline of the city, as seen from the Clinical Department at 517 S. 6th St. Neville Miller, uho seived as Bennett M. 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In the following pages we shall attempt to bring up to date the history of the various schools of the University of Louisville. Vv'e shall not try to present a comprehensive history, it is our purf pose to present only that information which seems typical of the development of each school. The coalition of the schools which formed the present Univer- sity of Louisville School of Medicine did not immediately produce a satisfactory medical school. The Flexner report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada brought to light grave defects in the University of Louisville School of Medicine. The result was that the School reorganized its faculty, improved its building, and lengthened its session. After these changes had been effected, the School of Medicine secured from the American Medical Association in June 1910 a rating of Class A. Today the school is a member of the Association of American Medical Schools. Beginning in the year 1914 the medical school held partial control of the professional work of the Louisville City Hospital. In 1922 this control was made complete. Beginning with the year 1922 the medical school faculty has had full time members as well as part time and clinical ones. In 1927 the department of Psychiatry was introduced into the School of Medicine. Students of Psychiatry are offered an op' portunity for practical training through the connection of the school with the Central State Hospital for the Insane, the City Hospital, and the Louisville Psychological Clinic, which in 1931 became afhliated with the University as the Mental Hygiene Clinic of the psychiatric department. I An important affiliation effected in 1930 was that of the Children's Free Hospital and the Waverley Hills Sanitarium for Tuberculosis with the School of Medicine. The School of Medicine received a S260,000 annex, which was erected in 1934 through the Public Works Administration. The Law School had by 1924 put into effect a threefyear course with one year of college work required for admission. The curriculum continued to be revised, however, until in 1934 the school had been placed on the accredited list of every national agency whose accreditment is regularly sought by any law school in America. It has been approved by the American Bar Associa' tion. the New York State Board of Regents, and the Association of American Law Schools. The school has had full time professors since 1928, The first full time dean was Neville Miller, who served in this capacity from 1930 to 1933, at which time he resigned to become Mayor of Louisville. The library which the Law School has today was begun in 1926 and has developed at a rapid pace. The most important contributions have been those made by Louis D. Brandeis, former justice of the United States Supreme Court. He has presented the library with numerous law books and reports, his most signifit cant contribution being a complete transcription and copy ol briefs of all cases coming before the United States Supreme Court since 1924. There are only twelve copies of these briefs in the country. james Speed, who served as United States AttorneyfGeneral under Lincoln and under Johnson from 1864 to 1866, was a prof fessor in the law school from 1856 to 1858 and from 1873 to 1879 and was always a great friend of the school and of its students. A valuable aiiiliation of the law school of the University is that which it has with the Legal Aid Society. The College of Arts and Sciences, the name of which was changed to the College of Liberal Arts in 1924, secured municif pal support in 1910. From 1908 to 1922 its dean was John L. Patterson, who served as acting president of the University in the year 1928'29. The College has undergone periodical reorganizations. Two of its recent developments have been the dividing of the four year course into a junior College and a Senior College and the estabf lishing of the experimental freshman plan. The growth of the library of the College has been rapid since 1928. Justice Brandeis has helped immeasurably in this develop' ment by his interest and his contribution of important books and documents in almost every department. In 1918 a dental school was purchased by the University. It had been established in 1887 as a department of the Hospital College of Medicine, which was afhliated with Central University of Richmond, Kentucky. Its franchise had been purchased by a group of medical and dental teachers in 1899, and it had been reorganized under the name of the Louisville College of Dentistry, being associated with Centre College at Danville until its pure chase by the University of Louisville. The School of Dentistry was fortunate in having as director of its research laboratory for a number of years Dr. Theodore Buest, who gained international fame for his research service. The School of Dentistry has had a Class A rating by the Dental Educational Council since 1923. It is a member of the American Association of Dental Schools. In 1935 a four year curriculum was put into operation in the School of Dentistry. Since that time the School has given the degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine instead of the former Doctor of Dental Science degree. This changed degree indicates the fact that the school recognizes the close relationship between medicine and dentistry and that it places emphasis on health education. There are only two other dental schools in the United States which grant this degree. The School of Dentistry operates a free dental clinic for chilf dren and a basic cost dental clinic for adults. Mr. justice Stanley Reed of the Academic Department of the University , l 15 XY. Broadway, before removal to Belknap Campus. e f ti 5 , V t 1 .X K United States Supreme Court laid the cornerstone for the new School of Law building on Belknap Campus, june 6, 1938. TI'he School of Medicine in 1856. Then it was at Ninth and Chestnut Streets. ....., is UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE